Chief Digital and Technology Officer

3 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom ENGINEERINGUK Full time
Job Title: Chief Digital and Technology Officer

Channel 5 is seeking an experienced Chief Digital and Technology Officer to join its Product Technology & Operations leadership team. This role is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced, commercially driven product technology team, alongside a number of other technology specialists and supplier partners.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Lead, mentor and inspire a team of technology professionals, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.
  • Lead relationships with internal partners, including the internal video product team, and act as SME for those products within Channel 5.
  • Perform evaluation of developers, service suppliers, and product vendors based on technical solutions, cost of implementation, and support.
  • Develop architectural direction for the tech estate and translate it into developable steps for development partners and tech solutions manager.
  • Perform technical vendor management across a range of incumbent technology service providers.
  • Oversee the development of technology solutions for Channel 5, guiding the specification of user stories and test cases.
  • Develop and implement a comprehensive technology strategy that aligns with the company's objectives and supports its growth.
  • Work with operational teams to ensure products are designed to be supported operationally.
  • Point of contact for the architecture of VoD delivery systems, providing technical consultancy to internal teams and external suppliers.
  • Gather and analyse business requirements to design, deliver, and iterate best-fit online video solutions.
Requirements:
  • Computer Science, Software Engineering, or similar technical subject qualification.
  • Self-motivated and highly organised, able to work well within a team, be flexible, and handle time effectively against competing pressures.
  • Commercially focused, with an awareness of the impact of technology decisions on business priorities.
  • Must have led teams in the technology solutions space.
  • Experience of software development, particularly based on web/internet technologies, with use of APIs and service-orientated architectures (SOA) highly desirable.
  • Experience of agile application development processes, including definition of stories and acceptance criteria.
  • Deep knowledge of VOD workflows and OTT delivery, including video encoding/transcoding, streaming protocols, and DRM/content security schemes.
  • Understanding of the principles of origin hosting, content distribution networks, and other distribution/caching techniques.
  • Experience with multi-device/multi-platform services and vendors.
  • Extensive knowledge of the streaming sector, its evolving technologies, partners, pitfalls, and benefits.

Channel 5 is an award-winning public service broadcaster and the UK's third latest commercial TV station, reaching 3 in 4 of the UK viewing public each month. The channel has a diverse schedule of original programmes across genres, including issue-led documentaries, popular factual, accessible history, stunning natural history, inclusive entertainment, and reality.

Channel 5 is a unit of Paramount Global. Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet. At Paramount, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do, on-screen and off. From the programming and movies we create to employee benefits/programs and social impact outreach initiatives, we believe that opportunity, access, resources, and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all.

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